Shark Club

[rat_fink]

Short skirts, high heels and low cut tops, served up with steak and salad...mm..hmm.
Whose rights are being violated???
Is this girl a civil rights leader or gold digger?
o7O

 

[rat_fink]

Damn this poor girl needs a lawyer

Really now...
I imagine people working at the Shark Club know its a place to unwind...
My work place would freak if I said shit even if my mouth was full of it...
If the Shark Club won't let me blow off, be safe and unwind...
where then??

Party at my place
o7O

 

[mercyshooter]

Is this their dressing code?

 

[dunnochit]

Is this their dressing code?

Yep. You can get it on the side or right on the salad. And at Thanksgiving you can get it with gravy.
Dress Code me thinks you meant
D

 

[ReluctantPooner]

I liken this to applying for a job as an exotic dancer, and then filing a human rights complaint when they ask you to get on stage and take off your clothes. That's the job. If you don't like, go work somewhere else.

 

[HubbaHubba]

Let's face it....we don't go to the Shark Club for the crappy food

 

[mercyshooter]

Make them hooter's like!!!!

 

[aznboi9]

I liken this to applying for a job as an exotic dancer, and then filing a human rights complaint when they ask you to get on stage and take off your clothes.

Or Hooters

 

[storm rider]

Whats the big deal?

I myself would not give that gal in the OP's pic a double take.....I see far more women in Calgary dressed in form hugging yoga pants each day....gals that have an ass just made for Lulu's.

It is not like the gal in the pic has a huge pair of boobs and is forced to wear a dress for work that exposes a lot of cleavage.

I just dont get it.

SR

 

[Man Mountain]

Short skirts, high heels and low cut tops, served up with steak and salad...mm..hmm.
Whose rights are being violated???
Is this girl a civil rights leader or gold digger?
o7O

I'd love to get alinburnaby's take on this but the "case" is being heard by the Human Rights Tribunal and I was not under the impression that a monetary settlement is involved. But I don't know enough about what is precisely involved in something like this. Anyway, here's the write up about this from The Province:

http://www.theprovince.com/news/van...ht+discrimination+tribunal/3529927/story.html

Shark Club server, asked to dress sexy, gains right to discrimination tribunal
By Sam Cooper, The Province September 15, 2010

A Richmond bartender who says she faced indecent proposals from customers because of the sexy clothes management forced her to wear may have been sexually discriminated against, the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal ruled.

Karolina Bil filed a sex-discrimination complaint against management of the Shark Club restaurant in Richmond, saying she was forced to wear miniskirts and busty, cleavage-revealing tops.

Management made it clear that she, not male bartenders, should entertain male customers at the bar, and customers crossed the line because of her attire, she alleged. She also wore her hair up once, and was ordered to let it down, she says.

The Shark Club and parent company Northland Properties Corp. has denied any harassment happened and asked the tribunal to dismiss Bil’s complaint.

But tribunal member Heather MacNaughton ruled Bil’s case will be heard, saying “Ms. Bil’s allegations about different treatment and expectations of male and female employees, including sexually based dress code requirements, if proven, could amount to sex discrimination.”

Shark Club’s director of operations, Jim Weidlinger, says the company does require woman servers to wear form-fitting attire but is very “transparent” in hiring and training of female employees, who understand they must wear uniforms with “intelligent sex appeal.”

A photo posted on the company’s website employment page — entitled “Work It!” — shows four long-haired, long-legged, miniskirt-wearing women standing in suggestive poses.

Sexy female servers are “a key piece of what our [business] offering is,” Weidlinger said.

He said management did “absolutely” nothing wrong in Bil’s case, adding that he believes the Shark Club’s policies for female servers “are very normal in our industry [and] for everyone that serves alcohol.”

Weidlinger said management has a protective policy in place for servers who face alleged harassment at work, and Bil never told managers she was experiencing harassment.

© Copyright (c) The Province

 

[GinaElite]

I used to work at the Shark Club but was fired for being to sexy lol true story they told me I was to flirty with the clientele when you put me in that kind of outfit what do you expect lol
XO GINA XO

 

[ReluctantPooner]

Whats the big deal?

I myself would not give that gal in the OP's pic a double take.....I see far more women in Calgary dressed in form hugging yoga pants each day....gals that have an ass just made for Lulu's.

It is not like the gal in the pic has a huge pair of boobs and is forced to wear a dress for work that exposes a lot of cleavage.

I just dont get it.

SR

Girl in the pic is not the one filing the complaint. The one who is is even more average. She took offense to having to wear a skirt that was 6 inches above her knees, and a low cut tshirt that they only supplied in small and medium. She quit on her second day and went to the Human Rights Tribunal.

 

[kalel]

i've been to the richmond shark club and a couple of notable things:

the hot waitresses flirt with the customers for tips. one of the bartenders (decent built guy) wears a tight white shirt and flirts with the women customers (better tips or all out fucking later that nite i'm not sure of).

the clothes won't make ugly women hot, they'll just make them blend in.

i fully understand that discrimination in it's true sense is bad. but the way women dress in certain lounges, and how they get their tips is pretty common knowledge. if you don't like it don't apply. if you walk thru a back alley that's nicknamed "rapist lane" don't be surprised if you get molested - in other words you should already know better.

imagine if the restaurant industry allowed some obese or non physically pleasant women work the tables. the tips would be down and the remaining waitresses would be choked. i know several waitresses who enjoy the attention and the tips. they ain't complaining.

 

[sonoman]

imagine if the restaurant industry allowed some obese or non physically pleasant women work the tables. the tips would be down and the remaining waitresses would be choked.

You do realize this is discriminatory, don't you?

i know several waitresses who enjoy the attention and the tips. they ain't complaining.

That's just one sample; they can't claim to speak for all.


We get that bar/lounge servers are hired on the basis of their attractiveness; the problem in this case (as I see it) is that management openly and unambigously articulated how she should dress and act, and to what end.


(Where's alinburnaby on this?)

 

[mercyshooter]

You do realize this is discriminatory, don't you?


That's just one sample; they can't claim to speak for all.


We get that bar/lounge servers are hired on the basis of their attractiveness; the problem in this case (as I see it) is that management openly and unambigously articulated how she should dress and act, and to what end.


(Where's alinburnaby on this?)

In a sense, it isn't completely discriminatory because restaurant industry is supposed to be "healthy". Obese means not healthy! I bet you die faster than slim to average people. Therefore, people think that it will be unhealthy and won't dine in that restaurant again!!!!!!

 

[Big Dog Striker]

If she didn't like the dress code, all she had to do was move to the White Spot.

 

[mercyshooter]

If she didn't like the dress code, all she had to do was move to the White Spot.

Exactly! Haha!

 

[InTheBum]

She looks hot! Why can't white SP's look like this???

Damn this poor girl needs a lawyer

She looks hot! Why can't white SP's look like this???

I guess we can only wish...




Really now...
I imagine people working at the Shark Club know its a place to unwind...
My work place would freak if I said shit even if my mouth was full of it...
If the Shark Club won't let me blow off, be safe and unwind...
where then??

Party at my place
o7O

 

[sonoman]

She looks hot! Why can't white SP's look like this???

They do; you're just too cheap to see the right ones.

 

[Man Mountain]

By human rights, do you mean that includes bleached blonds, too?

This is an interesting take on the whole thing:

http://www.vancouversun.com/life/human+rights+mean+that+includes+bleached+blonds/3566581/story.html

By human rights, do you mean that includes bleached blonds, too?
By Pete McMartin, Vancouver Sun September 23, 2010


For the benefit of my female readers -- and I write this as if you didn't already know -- here is the truth about men:

Men are swine.

This fact has survived the feminist revolution, which men applaud, by the way, because now their wives and partners can go out and get jobs and work themselves into an early grave just as men have traditionally done, plus there is the added bonus of a second income that now allows men to go out and buy that motorcycle they always promised themselves when they turned 40. Feminism? It's all good.

Here is another truth about men: Men are liars.

Let me narrow that down. Men are liars when it comes to women. If a man tells a woman he is with that he does not look at other women, or does not think about other women, or does not lust after other women, or, laughably, does not "objectify" other women -- ah, the feminist vocabulary, so quaint! -- he is one of three things. He is either (a) medicated, or (b) gay, but mostly he is (c) a liar. Take it from me. I'm a man. I wouldn't lie to you.

Which is to say, men, under the guise of being enlightened and "sensitive," have had to readjust their behaviour so as to thrive under the rules of feminism. There are pragmatic reasons for this. Women, after all, make up the majority of the workforce these days, and one must get along with one's colleagues if one is to prosper at work. Also, losing one's job for sexual harassment can be a drag.

Men have adapted to this by watching what they say and how they act at work, or, if they're at a party, acting like they are really listening to what the woman they just met has to say, despite the fact that, mostly, they're wondering what she looks like without her clothes on.

So, to recap. Men: swine and liars. Let's move on.

A few years ago, I attended a memorial service for a colleague on the North Shore. I attended the memorial service with two male friends, both of whom had worked with the deceased. We drove over to the North Shore together from Vancouver.

On the way home, we got stuck in a traffic jam on Marine Drive and, famished, we turned into one of those big chain restaurants that serve middling food from theme menus. Full of families. Nothing faintly lascivious about the place. But upon entering, we were immediately struck by the servers, all of whom were young, attractive and female. We were so struck by this that after being struck by this for a half-hour, I thought there may be a column in it. So I asked to speak to the manager, and an assistant manager came out, and she was young and attractive, and I asked her if it was just a coincidence that all the servers were young, attractive and female. And she asked, what do you mean by that? And I said, wasn't it a form of discrimination that all the servers were young, attractive and female? And mustering up her best corporate straight face, she said, oh, no, we choose our servers on the basis of their personalities. Whereupon I rolled my eyes and laughed.

Fast forward to last week.

A young, attractive woman by the name of Karolina Bil launched a complaint with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal against the Shark Club in Richmond, her former, and short-tenured, place of work. Bil quit days after being hired as a bartender because, she claimed, she was discriminated against for being instructed to wear mini-skirts, high heels and tops that revealed cleavage. She said she was also exposed to sexist remarks from customers.

The reason for these instructions and comments? Please see above under "Men: swine and liars."

Now, the first clue for Bil that the Shark Club may not have been the right fit for her employment-wise, if she was dress-code sensitive, would be the fact that it was named the "Shark Club" and not "Mom's Family Diner." It would be for that very same reason you do not find many professors of feminist studies working at Hooters, unless they are on sabbatical.

The second clue that might have told her that the Shark Club would not be a good fit for someone sensitive to discrimination was the appearance of the other servers at the Shark Club, all of whom were young, attractive females and who Bill, a blond, described as all having bleached blond hair. (Meeo wwww!)

Now, many women looking for work would take one look inside the door of the Shark Club and think "Not my kind of joint," and walk the other way. Even many male customers would do the same, men who, believe it or not, prefer to have a meal without a heavy helping of breast on the side. (I said all men are swine. I did not say we're not all drooling yahoos. There's a difference.)

Yet Bill did not do so. Even more oddly, she did not take issue with the fact that she was hired in the first place precisely because she was young, attractive and female. That is, once she was in the door, she took issue with one kind of discrimination, as she saw it, but had no problem with taking advantage of or was blind to another, and to me worse, kind of discrimination in the service industry that got her in the door in the first place -- the kind that discriminates in favour of beauty.

Sometimes, the real issue, and the greater injustice, is as plain as the look on your face.

Bill should look in the mirror.

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